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Inventory Management and organizational applications:
The adoption of computerized paperless operations to reduce trading costs and
facilitate the new business processes. In the manufacturing industry they are known as
just-in-time inventory systems , in retail industry they are quick response programs and
in transportation industry they are consignment tracking systems.
Justin time manufacturing :It is viewed as integrated management systems
consisting of a number of different management practices dependent on the
characteristics of specific plants.
The following management practices associated with JIT systems are :
Focused factory , reduced setup times, group technology , total productive maintenance
,uniform workload . JIT purchasing, total quality control. To achieve JIT savings
many large corporations have installed private communication networks.
Quick Response Retailing :
Quick response is a version of JIT purchasing tailored for retailing. To reduce the risk
of out of stock retailers are implementing the QR systems. It provides for a flexible
response to product ordering and lowers costly inventory levels. QR retailing focuses
on market responsiveness while maintaining low level of stocks.
It creates a closed loop encompassing the retailer , vendor , consumer chain, and as
consumers make purchases the vendor automatically orders new deliveries from the
retailers through its computer network. figure below gives the various steps of QR
chain.
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Supply Chain management :
Supply chain management (SCM) is also called extending which means integrating
the internal and external partners on the supply and process chain to get raw materials
to the manufacturer and finished products to the consumer. Most of the companies fails
because lack of integration due to fragmented supply chain management.
Supply Chain management ( SCM ) have various functions:
1.Supply chain management: The goal is to reduce the num the number of suppliers
and get them to become partners in business in a win / win relationship.
2.Invetory management: Its goal is to shorten the order-ship-bill cycle.
3.Distribution management:Its goal is to move documents related to shipping.
4.Payment management: The goal is to link the company and the suppliers and
distributors so that the payment can be sent and received electronically.
5.Financial management : The goal is to enable global companies to mange their
Money in various foreign exchange accounts.
6.Sales for productivity : its goal is to improve the communication and flow of
information among the sales , customer and production functions.